International collaboration
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Baroness Joanna Shields
Founded WePROTECT in 2014 Joanna Shields (Baroness Shields OBE) is an experienced technology executive and visionary leader with a successful track record building some of the world’s best-known companies. Her…
Baroness Shields: ‘When my time is up, have I done enough?’
On 11 June, Baroness Joanna Shields joined the UN Secretary General, Lucy Liu and others to launch a major new international development fund to End Violence Against Children. The Fund…
ITU joins WePROTECT Global Alliance to help combat online child sexual abuse
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Blog)
ITU has long been committed to collaborating on a global approach to the challenge of empowering and protecting children from potential sources of online harm.
Five Eyes nations want legal access to backdoors to fight ‘illegal content’
Publisher: IT Brief (Media)
New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom (Five Eyes) plus India and Japan have this week declared their support for end-to-end encryption – but only if they have…
WePROTECT’s transition to an independent organisation
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Press release)
Today, April 1st, 2020, marks the WePROTECT Global Alliance’s transition out of the UK Government into a self-sufficient, independent organisation. The WePROTECT Global Alliance has achieved an extraordinary amount since…
Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse
Publisher: Five-Country Ministerial (Tool)
On 5 March 2020 a set of Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse was launched in Washington DC. These principles were developed by the Five Country…
GPN: a network by professionals, for professionals responding to online child sexual abuse
Publisher: Marie Collins Foundation (Tool)
The GPN platform is a global online community of child protection practitioners, policy makers and academics eager to share the very latest research.
Model National Response Framework
Publisher: WeProtect Global Alliance (Tool)
The Model National Response is a framework focused on helping countries to build their response to online child sexual exploitation. It acknowledges that this cannot be addressed in isolation and…